LiquidDinosaurs69 t1_j558t5l wrote on January 20, 2023 at 2:19 PM

Woah

Avelina9X OP t1_j558wqk wrote on January 20, 2023 at 2:19 PM

Im not going crazy, right? Those are absolutely CNN upscaling artefacts.

f10101 t1_j55angk wrote on January 20, 2023 at 2:32 PM

Not necessarily. This kind of thing will also happen if you chain upscaling, quantization, smoothing and sharpening techniques.

What's the video link?

Avelina9X OP t1_j55gyws wrote on January 20, 2023 at 3:15 PM

Heres the video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPUGPLAfhTk

But if YouTube are doing A/B testing your hardware/account/IP/region might not be marked for rollout yet.

wintermute93 t1_j55igrj wrote on January 20, 2023 at 3:25 PM

I'm definitely not seeing whatever you're seeing, if I set that video to 144p and full-screen it (1440p monitor) I get an unwatchable mess, not an unwatchable mess that's been upscaled and sharpened like your screenshots.

Avelina9X OP t1_j55l3ks wrote on January 20, 2023 at 3:42 PM

What version of Chrome? What's your region? I'm in the UK, using a GTX 1660 Ti (but Chrome running on Intel Iris graphics) with chrome version 109.0.5414.75 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)

wintermute93 t1_j55rhlf wrote on January 20, 2023 at 4:22 PM

Same Chrome build as you, GTX 1080. I'm US but usually have my VPN set to somewhere in eastern Europe, no difference after turning it off. I see this.

Glum-Bookkeeper1836 t1_j57qhk9 wrote on January 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM

It might be anything in your particular tech stack, not just YouTube. Very interesting though, about time too.